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  • A piebald horse looms from the drizzle beside its new timber-built stable, and higher, on former downland with treeless hedges, the barley is yellowing.

    Country diary 2010

  • In the first place, the distance to the nearest inhabited country is very great -- over 2,000 geographical miles -- and in the second, there is a serious obstruction on this route in the shape of the belt of pack-ice, which, narrow and loose as it may be at times, will always necessitate the employment of timber-built vessels for the work of transport.

    The South Pole~ The Eastern Sledge Journey 2009

  • This tiny timber-built summer cabin is located in the woods between the coast and Lake Arresø in Northern Zealand.

    Rock Blending Summer House in Vestfold, Norway 2007

  • On this isolated and mewed-up bit of lawn stood a timber-built cottage, having ornamental barge-boards, balconettes, and porch.

    The Hand of Ethelberta 2006

  • The three structures around it were timber-built and tall, with wide doors.

    Shield of Thunder Gemmell, David 2006

  • The timber-built town of Buev, a town which has several times been burnt to the ground, lies huddled upon a hillock above the river Obericha.

    Through Russia 2003

  • In the first place, the distance to the nearest inhabited country is very great — over 2,000 geographical miles — and in the second, there is a serious obstruction on this route in the shape of the belt of pack-ice, which, narrow and loose as it may be at times, will always necessitate the employment of timber-built vessels for the work of transport.

    The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003

  • The manor house lay a little aside from the village and the church, timber-built on the stone undercroft, in level, well-drained fields, with gentle wooded slopes beyond.

    The Confession of Brother Haluin Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1988

  • The manor house lay a little aside from the village and the church, timber-built on the stone undercroft, in level, well-drained fields, with gentle wooded slopes beyond.

    The Confession of Brother Haluin Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1988

  • The Latin motto "Look and Go" reminded my brother of an old timber-built mansion in Staffordshire which, as it stood near a road, everybody stayed to admire, its architectural proportions being so beautiful.

    From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

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